[Mageia-dev] MANDATORY READ : 7 days before misc unleashes CERBERUS!

Mon Sep 19 00:57:25 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 16 septembre 2011 à 19:20 +0200, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :
+
+>   I'm perhaps a little more optimist, thinking that volunteers will catch the bugs even if they
+> are not the official maintainer.
+> But I'm afraid that declaring that a bug catcher becomes a package maintainer will prevent anyone to get so
+> engaged... and let the number of bugs increase !
+
+That would be nice if it was not in fact already tried at Mandriva since
+years. 
+First, the main problem is that we do not really know if something is
+unmaintained or not, because the maintainer db information mean nothing
+in practice since that's by design. 
+
+Several people had the impression that contribs was low quality, due to
+bugs, and lack of reaction from maintainer. Which is indeed a
+consequence of having no maintainer for some packages. No matter how you
+spin it, "this is not taken care of" sound bad.
+
+So we tried enough the policy of optimism. Enough to know that in the
+end, it just result in more problems, and it doesn't solve much.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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